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Rapidly progressive anomic aphasia: a rare presentation of temporal lobe tumor.

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Cerebral tumours presenting with psychiatric symptoms.

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Four cases of cerebral tumours presenting with psychiatric symptoms were referred to the psychiatrist for management. They displayed some degree of cognitive impairment, notably impaired memory for recent events, and nominal aphasia. Clinical neurological examinations were generally unremarkable

Anomic aspects of recovery from cancer.

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A cancer diagnosis is universally regarded as a traumatic event. Many equate it with a 'sentence of death'. But an increasing number of cancer patients are being cured. An exploratory study involving intensive interviews with recovered cancer patients indicated that the positive experience of being

Surgical approaches to tumours of the lateral ventricles in the dominant hemisphere.

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BACKGROUND Intraventricular neoplasms are rare tumours (1% of the tumours of the central nervous system). The surgical approach sometimes is quite difficult, particularly in the dominant hemisphere. The best choice of surgical approach is discussed. METHODS The authors describe a series of 25

Anomia for people's names after left anterior temporal lobe resection--case report.

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A 47-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with an intrinsic brain tumor in the left anterior temporal lobe. Preoperative sodium thiopental test demonstrated left hemispheric dominance. Awake craniotomy was performed for dominant-hemispheric tumor resection using language mapping to identify the

Stereotactic probability and variability of speech arrest and anomia sites during stimulation mapping of the language dominant hemisphere.

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OBJECTIVE Functional mapping using direct cortical stimulation is the gold standard for the prevention of postoperative morbidity during resective surgery in dominant-hemisphere perisylvian regions. Its role is necessitated by the significant interindividual variability that has been observed for

Long-term proper name anomia after removal of the uncinate fasciculus.

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A previous study reporting on 44 patients who underwent awake surgery for a left frontal or temporal glioma resection demonstrated the removal of the uncinate fasciculus to have consequences on language 3 months post-surgery. At this time-point, patients with a temporal glioma who had undergone

October 2004: a 49-year-old man with progressive dementia.

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October 2004. A 49-year-old right-handed man developed progressive cognitive difficulties over a 4-month period. There was impairment in recent memory, calculations and language. He also developed fatigue, weight loss, gait imbalance and urinary incontinence. Past history included

Challenging implications of CLIPPERS syndrome with atypical presentation: report of two cases

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Background: Chronic lymphocytic inflammation with pontine perivascular enhancement responsive to steroids (CLIPPERS) is an increasingly recognized neuroinflammatory syndrome that predominantly affects pontine and cerebellar brain

[Dysconnection syndrome in a boy with tumorous lesion of corpus callosum].

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We report on a 12-years-old boy with glioma of the septum pellucidum which invaded and infiltrated the adjacent structures including neocortical commissures. Neuropsychological evaluation revealed the loss of interhemispheric integration and hemisphere dysconnection syndrome. Our patient

[Aphasia and parietal syndrome as the presenting symptoms of a demyelinating disease with pseudotumoral lesions].

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BACKGROUND Multiple sclerosis (MS) often presents with sensory symptoms, which are usually due to spinothalamic or spinal cord disorders; parietal syndrome is, however, very rare as the initial symptom. Likewise, aphasia is also an infrequent symptom of MS; in the few cases that have been reported,

Method for temporal keyhole lobectomies in resection of low- and high-grade gliomas.

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OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to describe a method of resecting temporal gliomas through a keyhole lobectomy and to share the results of using this technique. METHODS The authors performed a retrospective review of data obtained in all patients in whom the senior author performed resection

Rare case of a primary non-dural central nervous system low grade B-cell lymphoma and literature review.

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We present a case of a 70-year-old HIV negative man with a five-year history of progressive dysnomia and new onset right extremity numbness, dysarthria, and blurry vision. On magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), an infiltrative enhancing tumor was noted. Follow up brain biopsy results revealed a small

Speech and Language Dysfunctions in Patients with Cerebrocortical Disorders Admitted in a Neurosurgical Unit.

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Speech and language abnormality among brain injury patients are common, especially during the acute stage. The details of same from Andhra Pradesh (AP) state are limited. The present study provides details of speech and language abnormality among brain damage patients, from a tertiary

Alexia due to ischemic stroke of the visual word form area.

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The visual word form area (VWFA) is a region in the posterior left occipitotemporal cortex adjacent to the fusiform gyrus hypothesized to mediate word recognition. Evidence supporting the role of this area in reading comes from neuroimaging studies of normal subjects, case-controlled lesion studies,

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